Students Mobilize for Genoa
A FUNDRAISING EFFORT TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THE FLOODING WILL BE HELD TOMORROW. SOME STUDENTS, INCLUDING ALESSANDRO TESTA, WHO HELPED ORGANIZE THE FUNDRAISER, ALSO RUSHED TO THE COAST TO HELP DIG THROUGH THE MUDWhen he saw his city and his neighborhood plagued by water and mud, Alessandro Testa, a student from Genoa enrolled in his second year of the Bachelor of International Economics, Management and Finance at Bocconi, didn’t take long before deciding to help any way he could.
With his hands and a shovel, he was there with other “mud angels” Enrico Benassi, Giacomo Luigi Rossi, Nicolò De Benedetti and Antonio Taragoni, who are also students at the University from the Liguria capital. But it wasn’t enough. “I thought of something that could be done and I contacted Marta Giuffrè, a Law student and president of Students for Humanity, and we came up with the idea for a fundraising project.”
The idea soon became a reality with the support of representatives from student associations. An appointment for the entire Bocconi community has been set for tomorrow between 10am and 6pm, at the student stand in Piazza Staffa. The proceeds gathered will be allocated to business owners in Borgo Incrociati and the Quadrilatero della Foce through AsCom Genova and to support the project “Non c’è fango che tenga” aimed at the people who were affected.
by Davide Ripamonti
Translated by Jenna Walker
